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SCSI Functional Description

2-17

1.

Use the RST/ pin as a boundary scan compliance pin. When the pin
deasserts, the device is boundary scan compliant and when it
asserts, the device is noncompliant. To maintain compliance the
RST/ pin must be driven high.

2.

When RST/ asserts during boundary scan testing the expected
output on the SCSI pins must be the HIGH-Z condition, and not what
is contained in the boundary scan data registers for the SCSI pin
output cells.

2.2.4 SCSI Loopback Mode

The LSI53C876 loopback mode allows testing of both initiator and target
functions and, in effect, lets the chip communicate with itself. When the
Loopback Enable bit is set in the

SCSI Test Two (STEST2)

register, bit 4,

the LSI53C876 allows control of all SCSI signals, whether the chip is
operating in the initiator or target mode. For more information on this
mode of operation, refer to the

SCSI SCRIPTS Processors Programming

Guide

.

2.2.5 Parity Options

The LSI53C876 implements a flexible parity scheme that allows control
of the parity sense, allows parity checking to be turned on or off, and has
the ability to deliberately send a byte with bad parity over the SCSI bus
to test parity error recovery procedures.

Table 2.2

defines the bits that

are involved in parity control and observation.

Table 2.3

describes the

parity control function of the Enable Parity Checking and Assert SCSI
Even Parity bits in the

SCSI Control One (SCNTL1)

register, bit 2.

Table 2.4

describes the options available when a parity error occurs.

Figure 2.2

shows where parity checking is done in the LSI53C876.